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Assessment Dates 2024/25

Dates and times of examinations will be published via your online timetable nearer the time. Please do not request this information from your Tutors as the dates of exams are centrally timetabled by the University and not Philosophy Department staff.

In the Philosophy Department, all assessed essays and some exams have a maximum permitted word limit, and this may vary from module to module.  It is your responsibility to check the individual module information to ensure you know the maximum permitted word limit for each assessment.  All students must declare their word count on all submitted assessments and any submission which declares a word count which exceeds the maximum permitted word limit will be penalised.

Year 1 Assessments

Semester 1 assessment period

MODULE NAME MODULE CODE CREDITS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Knowledge & Perception PHI00008C 20 

Type: One essay (max 2000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Philosophical Analysis PHI00015C 20

Type: One essay (max 2000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Power & Consent PHI00018C 20

Type: One essay (max 2000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

 

Semester 2 assessment period

MODULE NAME MODULE CODE CREDITS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Beginning Philosophical Research PHI00016C 20

One PDF poster submission due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED, Semester 2 assessment period (70%)

and 

One oral presentation of the poster, at a date and time between : DATE TO BE CONFIRMED, Semester 2 assessment period (30%)

Ethics PHI00007C  20

One online exam, Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

start date and time: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Submission deadline date and time: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Free Will PHI00017C 20

One essay (max 2000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED,

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Reason & Argument PHI00005C  20

One 'take-home' exam Semester 2 (33%) (students must answer ALL questions).

Paper is released: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Submission deadline date and time: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

and

One online exam, Semester 2 assessment period (67%)

start date and time: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Submission deadline date and time: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Year 2 Assessments

Semester 1 assessment period

MODULE NAME MODULE CODE CREDITS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Applied Ethics PHI00079I 20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Aristotle PHI00066I 20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100%

Logic & Paradox PHI00121I 20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Love, Law & Solidarity PHI00123I 20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Metaphysics PHI00074I  20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Politics and Freedom: Anarchism & Conservatism PHI00118I 20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Religious Ethics PHI00072I 20

Type: One essay (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

 

Semester 2 assessment period

MODULE NAME MODULE CODE CREDITS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Ethical Theory PHI00082I 20

One essay (max 3000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Knowledge and the Social Sciences PHI00122I 20

One essay (max 3000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Lived Experiences: Introduction to Phenomenology PHI00117I 20

One essay (max 3000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Philosophy and Society PHI00124I 20

One audio file podcast and portfolio due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (50%)

and

One essay (max 2000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (50%)

Philosophy of Language PHI00073I 20

One essay (max 3000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Philosophy of Mind PHI00078I 20

One essay (max 3000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Philosophy of Science   PHI00080I 20 

One essay (max 3000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

 

Year 3 and 4 Assessments

Semester 1 assessment period

MODULE NAME MODULE CODE CREDITS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION
Buddhism as Philosophy

PHI00139H

20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Causation and Laws

PHI00095H

20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

PHI00002H

20 

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Dissertation (Short) Semester 1

PHI00041H

20

 Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Dissertation (Long)

PHI00101H

40

Type: One dissertation outline and annotated bibliography (max 3000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 13th January 2025

Weight: 10% 

and

Type: One dissertation (max 8000 words) 

Due before: Semester 2 assessment period  DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Weight: 90% 

Happiness, Utility, Wellbeing PHI00122H 20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Mind and Morality PHI00123H 20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Philosophy of Christianity

PHI00058H

20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Philosophy of Physics 

PHI00013H

20 

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

Theories of Social Justice PHI00112H 20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

World and Mind PHI00144H 20

Type: One essay (max 4000 words)

Due before: 10:00 am on Monday 20th January 2025

Weight: 100% 

 

Semester 2 assessment period

MODULE NAME MODULE CODE CREDITS ASSESSMENT INFORMATION

Action and Agency

PHI00049H

20

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Cognitive Anomalies, Decision-making and Democracy

PHI00119H

20

One group Wiki (max 2000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2, week 8 (40%)

and

One essay (max 1500 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (60%)

Consciousness

PHI00018H 

20 

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Dissertation (Short) - Semester 2

PHI00041H

20

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Dissertation (Long)

PHI00101H

40

Type: One dissertation outline and annotated bibliography (max 3000 words)

Due before: see Semester 1 information

Weight: 10% 

and

Type: One dissertation (max 8000 words) 

Due before: Semester 2 assessment period  DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Weight: 90% 

Experimental Philosophy: The Psychology of Philosophy PHI00143H 20

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Foundations of Maths 

PHI00017H 

20 

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Further Topics in Ethics

PHI00121H

20

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

German Idealism: Moral, Legal & Political Philosophy PHI00073H 20

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)

Nine Artworks, Nine Philosophical Problems PHI00146H 20

One essay (max 4000 words) due: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED

Semester 2 assessment period (100%)